[NautiNurse]

the WFLA VIPIR computer model accurately predicted the Ft. Myers area landfall consistently for the past three days. It is showing TS Charlie raking up through the RDU region.

Lots of local reports Scroll down to the long list of links.

Going to call it a night here. Only nine hours sleep in just about 3 days. Heads up! More storms on the way.

[Strategerist]

VIPIR is not a computer model as the term is generally used.

It's just a fancy-schmancy cool-looking 3D way to display radar info. It's not predictive.

I really have no idea (since I didn't watch the station) how it got perceived by you or portrayed by the station as a forecast model.

And it doesn't belong to that station specfically. It's a subscription product used by stations all over the country. They're being deceptive if they describe it as such, but it would not surprise me.

[Howlin]

Do you have a link to that?

[CJ Wolf]

thanks for the link.

The crew said they encountered dead cows wrapped up in barbed wire and telephone poles snapped in two lying in the roadway.

His home destroyed, Paterson walked along Taylor Road with a dazed look and blood trickling from several head wounds. "Happy Friday the 13th," he said.